Chanelle+Bryant


 * SUMMARY: Chanelle Bryant, age 22, died January 14, 2004 after an abortion at a Family Planning Associates Medical Group clinic in California.**

Twenty-two-year-old Chanelle Marion Bryant was given the drugs for a [|safe and legal] chemical abortion at a [|Family Planning Associates Medical Group] facility in California. She was instructed to use the prostaglandin as a suppository, rather than take an oral prostaglandin. This off-label use is being investigated by the CDC and FDA after Chanelle and four other US women died of [|infection] after RU-486 abortions.

Chanelle suffered terrible pain four days after self-administering the medication. She sought emergency care at Huntington Memorial Hospital. Her condition deteriorated, and she was transferred to the intensive care unit at 1:20 PM. At 4:11 she went into cardiac arrest. She was taken into surgery at 5:27 to try to identify the source of her problems. Ten minutes into surgery she went into cardiac arrest again. She was pronounced dead at 5:51.

Chanelle had been perfectly healthy before her abortion, according to her mother, Lynn Bryant. She told reporters that it was vital for medical professionals to be educated about the dangers of chemical abortions to prevent further maternal deaths.

Chanelle was about nine weeks pregnant when she went to the Glendale FPA owned by the infamous Edward "Fast Eddie" Allred. The coroner‘s report attributed her death, January 14, 2004, to "sepsis and pneumonia due to Endomyometritis with abcess formation due to Termination of Pregnancy."

Thus Chanelle joined the sad ranks of women known to have died after FPA abortions: Denise Holmes,Mary Pena, Josefina Garcia, Lanice Dorsey, Joyce Ortenzio, Tami Suematsu, Christina Mora, Susan Levy, Nakia Jorden, Maria Leho, Maria Rodriguez, Patricia Chacon, Kimberly Neil, and Deanna Bell.

FPA is a member of the [|National Abortion Federation], an organization that ostensibly ensures that abortions are done safely.

Other women who have died after using the abortion cocktail include Holly Patterson, Cherish Roe, Tara Roe, Wanda Roe, Oriane Shevin, Vivian Tran, and Brenda Vise.

Other women to die from abortions at FPA facilities include:


 * Denise Holmes, age 24, 1970
 * Patricia Chacon, age 16, 1984
 * Mary Pena, age 43, 1984
 * Josefina Garcia, age 37, 1985
 * Lanice Dorsey, age 17, 1986
 * Joyce Ortenzio, age 32, 1988
 * Tami Suematsu, age 19, 1988
 * Deanna Bell, age 13, 1992
 * Susan Levy, age 30, 1992
 * Christina Mora, age 18, 1994
 * Ta Tanisha Wesson, age 24, 1995
 * Nakia Jorden, 1998
 * Maria Leho, 1999
 * Kimberly Neil, 2000
 * Maria Rodriguez, age 22, 2000

Primary source: [|More Population Control?]

For an extensive set of links on RU-486, go to: [|The RU-486 Files].

 Sources:


 * <span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,helvetica; font-size: 80%; line-height: normal;">[|Abortion Pill Investigated in Four California Deaths]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">"Deaths after abortion pill use to be studied by regulators," //The (Palm Springs, CA) Desert Sun//, Nov. 24, 2005



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